‘Concerning Quality, Again’: J.H. Prynne’s Christmas Cracker Jokes

What do you get if you eat the Christmas decorations?Such persons are hungry; the rival / ventures his life in deep water, the reddish gold / glints in the shadows of our lustful solitude.

Who is Santa’s favourite singer?The open question over and under and wasted / as childish carols, ripe well before time.

How does Good King Wenceslas like his pizzas?Under constant erasure, cutting out the bottom dish.

Why did Santa apologise to Rudolph?Remorse is a pathology of / syntax…

When is a boat like snow?As or like / sure, arrow too near in wet shoes.

What did the policeman say to Santa?Arrest / is sprung up, hope holds it, wish / wears its diadem

How did Luke Skywalker know what he was getting for Christmas?The cruel child is elevated this morning / by the prospect of careful memories. How he / turns warmly into the shade, how he would / like to lay open his left arm.